[throwaw20221107]

I would love to just learn about places where I go passively with AR.

It won't go down this way. Wikipedia for AR will never happen. More likely it'll be thousands of ads and other crap.

[MrLeap]

If there's a good AR headset you'd have to be able to stop me (and a million other people) from forcing wikipedia onto the device. That might be a harder technical challenge than actually making the AR headset.

[throwaw20221107]

Sure but the vision/nlp models required to enable context-sensitive vision apps (i.e. an app to "give me facts from Wikipedia about what I'm seeing"), those models are closed and owned by big companies like Google and OpenAI.

The previous two computing revolutions "personal computers" and "apps/websites" were enabled by the openness of the OS and the openness of TCP/IP and browser vendors, respectively. If the next "AR/VR" revolution depends on complex vision models, there's no guarantee they'll be open for independent devs. And judging by the last few years, it's highly likely they won't be.

BTW I think there's good reason they don't release GPT-3 or DALL-E or PaLM or whatever. That shit is dangerous.

Edit: ok you can hack the hardware to let you run the models or make the necessary network calls to run them. That's still way different than Wikipedia which is a first class webapp where you don't have to hack anything to use it.